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maggiejk

@maggiejk@zeroes.ca

Animal lover, anti-fascist, beach goer.Marijuana is Medicine. #BLM, #M4A, #ANTIFA #Childfree by choice. #CovidZERO #MECFS #atheist
VERY ANTI-PATRIARCHY
Rooting for the Orcas
Down for some Degrowth

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jmcrookston, to random
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Err or medicine improved 😉

However, we now know that these events represented the largest influenza virus pandemic on record: the catastrophic 1918 influenza pandemic. Since 1918, the world has experienced three additional influenza pandemics: the 1957 “Asian” influenza pandemic, the 1968 “Hong Kong” influenza pandemic and the 2009 so-called “swine flu” pandemic. These pandemics, although mild in comparison to that of 1918,

maggiejk,
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@jmcrookston I’ve seen people saying nicotine patches work for long Covid. Sounds horrible if you’re not already a smoker

trendless, (edited ) to random
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Client: "Will you mask for me?"

Service Provider: "I'm not required to."

What hath public health wrought?

maggiejk,
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@trendless I take a shower before I go in a small room where I’m going to take my clothes off around them.

I’m not required to, but it’s the right thing to do.

Maybe I should stop doing that. If I came in with an offensive odor they might reach for that mask.

afilina, to random
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Regular phones lack spam protection so much that I'm considering completely disconnecting my number and going exclusively for web-based services that have better privacy controls.

I get an order of magnitude more recruiter spam and phishing via phone and SMS than legit communications.

maggiejk,
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@afilina the iPhone allows me to only get text messages from known contacts, and I think there’s a setting so private numbers don’t ring through, but I can’t keep that on because my doctor calls from a private number.

But even blocked numbers will end up in voicemail

(Edited because it will receive and hold unknown texts in a separate folder but I don’t get alerts about them.)

Andres4NY, to random
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I generally try to avoid shopping on (for various reasons), but my rule is that if something is only available on amazon or is much cheaper, I will shop there.

I bought something recently. They added me as a Prime member (I didn't click anything to become a prime member, but apparently I didn't uncheck something so they gave me a "free" month; which I don't actually need or want) and have been spamming me about Prime crap. And now my item arrived, and part of it is missing.

maggiejk,
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@Andres4NY I have come to believe that if something is only available on Amazon it might be counterfeit.

I became freaked out about Amazon and counterfeit products, especially the flavor of cat food I was buying because the pet stores don’t have that specific flavor by itself like I’ve been purchasing it. That’s suspicious to me.

mekkaokereke, (edited ) to random
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As we hear reports that it will take 10 years (🤯) to replace the 1.6 mile Francis Scott Key bridge in Baltimore, remember that China built the Danyang-Kunshan bridge and Qingdao Jiaozhou Bay Bridge in 4 years each.

Danyang-Kunshan Bridge is 102 miles long, and 100 ft above the water.

Jiaozhou Bay Bridge is 16 miles and 623 ft tall, earthquake and typhoon proof, and can withstand a direct strike from a 300,000 ton cargo ship. That last point is unfortunately topical.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U7iQqogVmr8

maggiejk,
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@mekkaokereke @PJ_Evans not government related, but did you hear about entire developments of houses in Arizona falling apart even though they are new builds? And I’m sure these people overpaid for these crappy houses too.

timberwraith, to random
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I want to make clear that I do not buy the notion that the fascism we see is just politicians manipulating the polity by distracting them with fear and bigotry.

I know these people. I was one of them when I was growing up.

The evil was there, at their core, waiting to be accessed, and it was passed from one generation to the next via community conformity and social training.

They are as culpable as the politicians who manipulate them.

maggiejk,
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@timberwraith yep every time I hear someone say we shouldn’t attribute something to malice when it’s actually stupidity, I want to scream that’s how MAGAts got power. We assumed they were all just being conned, like they didn’t know better, when in fact they were cheering for the fascism and the hate.

msquebanh, to britishcolumbia
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like these — without any missed rent payments or damage to a unit — account for roughly 85% of the total in according to a 2023 study of the period between 2016 & 2021. During that interval, one-in-10 studied were .

These rates outpace the rest of in both total ousted & ones kicked out for no fault of their own.

https://www.saanichnews.com/local-news/told-to-get-out-no-fault-evictions-ensnare-renters-in-victoria-and-beyond-7334992

maggiejk,
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@msquebanh I live in New Hampshire USA and I recently learned that at some point in the past five years it became illegal for landlords to refuse to renew a lease just because.

I remember my mom got evicted years ago because her landlord decided not to renew the lease because her mental illness made her annoying to them.

I was delighted to learn that that rule had changed, because I have had to become annoying to my landlord and I was worrying that I would end up homeless this summer because of it.

maggiejk, to random
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The 2 day finally broke. I am so relieved.

Does anyone take ?
It works really well I’m just always terrified to take a second pill because I feel like it messes with my digestive system to the point that I noticed it’s altered even days later.

Does anyone take this medication? And if so have you noticed a problem?

18+ trendless, to random
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https://www.cureus.com/articles/152512-new-alcohol-sensitivity-in-patients-with-post-acute-sequelae-of-sars-cov-2-pasc-a-case-series#!/

> Post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 (PASC), or long COVID, is characterized by persistent symptoms after acute SARS-CoV-2 infection that can vary from patient to patient. Here, we present a case series of four patients with a history of SARS-CoV-2 infection referred to the Post-Acute COVID-19 Syndrome (PACS) Clinic at Stanford University for evaluation of persistent symptoms, who also experienced new-onset alcohol sensitivity. Alcohol reactions and sensitivity are not well characterized in the literature as it relates to post-viral illness. While there have been some anecdotal reports of new alcohol sensitivity in PASC patients in the media, there is a paucity of published data in the medical literature about this topic. During their medical consultation, the patients self-reported new changes in their symptoms or behaviors following the use of alcohol. A new onset of alcohol sensitivities should be assessed along with other post-COVID-19 symptoms and may provide novel avenues to explore the pathobiology of illness and potential interventions.

@covidisnotover

maggiejk,
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@trendless this is interesting, I’ve never been much of a drinker but after I developed MECFS from mono, one drink will rock me. If I have two I get PEM for a couple days. It’s not worth it at all.

QasimRashid, to random
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SCOTUS is hearing arguments to ban Mifepristone b/c “FDA failed to address concerns about whether the drug is safe for women.”

Mifepristone reports 5 deaths per 1M people who use it—a death rate of 0.0005%.

Viagra has a 15X greater death rate.

So…when do we ban Viagra??🤔

maggiejk,
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@thomasfuchs @QasimRashid @tbridge we can ban forced births any day now.
Are you mad that people are suggesting men shouldn’t be able to use medication that helps them? Maybe you should get mad men are suggesting women shouldn’t have medication that helps them.

maggiejk, to Canada
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Canada gets the good stuff.

For $6.99 you can get a mask sample pack with a bunch of different sizes so you can figure out what size you want before you buy a whole pack of them.

I didn’t see anything like this in illmerica.

https://canadastrong.ca/products/ca-n95-sample-kit-disposable-respirator-mask-made-in-canada-95pfe

MikeDunnAuthor, to random
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maggiejk,
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@MikeDunnAuthor the Zoomers are actually giving me hope for the future. I don’t know many of them personally, but the last one I had in-depth conversations with was a young man and I could tell he was raised by a great mom.

Those kids aren’t letting their employers run their lives, but they aren’t slackers either. They give me hope.

maggiejk, to baltimore
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A ship hit a BRIDGE in Baltimore in the night.
JFC is it brain damage? How does one hit a bridge with a cargo ship??

I hope they get the people out of the water. This is horrific.

https://youtu.be/I_A06iT6K1s

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, to auscovid19
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"Everyone should be getting a coronavirus vaccination annually in a similar manner to the flu shot, according to a new study out today by a team of US researchers."

Source: https://www.9news.com.au/national/coronavirus-vaccine-proposal-for-annual-jab-similar-to-flu-shot-extra-dose-for-high-risk-individuals-health-news/00f2f391-d12c-4cee-923f-a75a7077e719

Study: https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M23-2451

@auscovid19

maggiejk,
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@jarich @DenisCOVIDinfoguy @auscovid19 nah this is ridiculous. Those shots last a couple months and telling people 1x a year is fine will give them a false sense of security.

That’s why covid blew up so much after 2021.

StillIRise1963, to random
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Yes, it’s your RESPONSIBILITY to stop racism when you hear it, see it happening. This is part and parcel of “we have to save ourselves, no one is coming to save us."

maggiejk,
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@Sablebadger @StillIRise1963 this is a great little free webinar about how to stand up to street harassment as a bystander without instigating the harasser.

https://www.standup-international.com/us/en/training/landing

lauren, to threads
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Feeding trash into is the functional equivalent of when Tom Sawyer got the other kids to whitewash the fence for him for free. Only in this case Tom is Zuckerberg and his cohorts, laughing at the "Fediverse" rubes.

maggiejk,
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@mattblaze @lauren From what I understand, if somebody participates with threads and they reply or react to my post then my post is part of threads, which is part of meta, which is collecting data to sell to megacorporations.
And if I was OK with Zucchini having my data I would just go join thread myself.

I guess I have to figure out how to block it here. Idk this reminded me that I have to figure that out.

maggiejk,
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@CStamp @mattblaze @f800gecko @lauren yes but I think the point is that decisions made by others can result in our mastodon posts being permanently stored in meta servers and some of us really object to that.

maggiejk,
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@lauren @mattblaze @not2b oh nice, so I may be worrying about nothing? If they aren’t taking information from here they’re just depositing garbage then I guess I don’t have to care and can block as necessary

maggiejk,
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@fsinn @lauren @mattblaze @not2b yikes, I didn’t read it that way at all.
Social media is so interesting, I asked a man the other day if he was calling me a clown and he totally wasn’t, so it’s not like I’m above feeling offense where there’s no offense
And I’m nobody here in this conversation I was just reading to try to understand and maybe help if I did understand, but I guess I didn’t.
But man, that didn’t sound aggressive to me at all.

maggiejk, to random
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❤️:
Planet Fitness bans member over trans woman locker room photo https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/03/18/planet-fitness-trans/

maggiejk, to random
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This is fine:

“People who were infected with SARS-CoV-2 had a 25% higher risk of later being diagnosed with an autoimmune inflammatory rheumatic disease (AIRD) after infection than those who weren’t infected, according to a large cohort study that included more than 22 million participants in Japan and South Korea. They also had a 30% greater risk of developing AIRD, such as systemic lupus erythematosus or rheumatoid arthritis, compared with people who had influenza, the researchers reported in the Annals of Internal Medicine.”
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2816699

mekkaokereke, to random
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🤔 Why are people taking Scott Adams seriously? He says DEI stands for "Didn't Earn It." But let's look at his own words from his own book. He's boasting about his mediocrity, and how he didn't earn anything, and about how he was terrible at his job.

Every Black employee at his company earned it much more than he did. And these are his own words! And look at the text from his own performance review! 🤡

A bank teller that loses money and is incompetent, genuinely expecting to be promoted.

My supervisor liked me, but my sloppiness at keeping track of peo- ple's transactions-which in those days involved writing down num- bers with a pen and paper-made me unfit for the job. My supervisor warned me that unless I improved quickly, she would be forced to let me go. I knew I wasn't likely to get better at handling details. I was a failure at my first job. I figured I had two ways to leave my job. I could get fired or-and here's the optimist emerging-I could get promoted. I wrote a letter to the senior vice president for the branch system, who was probably seven or eight layers of management above me, and described all of my naive suggestions for improving the bank. My ideas had one thing in common: They were impractical for reasons a twenty-one-year-old wouldn't yet appreciate. I closed my letter by asking for a rare and coveted spot in the management training program, a fast track to up- per management. It was a long shot for a guy who had on his perma- nent work record some version of "too incompetent to write numbers

maggiejk,
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@mekkaokereke the worst thing about that is think of how many people he screwed over making his aww shucks mistakes.

You deposit $2000 but this loser writes “200” so all your checks bounce. Rent goes unpaid. But oh well, poor little Scotty came to the city destitute with only $2000 cash gifted to him so “give him a chance!”

Don’t think about the lives that got ruined by his mistakes. No big deal, he prefers to make mistakes and learn from them rather than just learn how to do it right in the first time.

HeavenlyPossum, to random
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The idea of human beings as rational utility-maximizing particles with insatiable hedonic desires is very much the product of an ideological project to justify capitalism as “natural” and has virtually no relationship to how actual human beings live but a lot of people have genuinely internalized it.

Trying to derive “human nature” by observing people under capitalist modernity is like looking at a bored, depressed wolf obsessively pacing a circle in a tiny zoo enclosure and concluding that this is “wolf nature.”

maggiejk,
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@HeavenlyPossum I’ve been watching people kill off their friends and family so they don’t have to give up a fun activity. Yeah, people cannot be trusted to do the right thing. We’ve been watching it happen for four years

And I can say for sure that I haven’t spread airborne viral diseases to my friends family or community because I care about the health of my community and I care about other people.

Plus there’s a huge group of human beings who only do the right thing because sky daddy is watching them and they are threatened with hell if they don’t do the right thing. But you really think that these people would just continue doing the right thing if they weren’t afraid of Satan or wanting to go to heaven? Nah

pezmico, to random
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I'm never going to not be angry at the fact that we've collectively accepted that it's fine to infect kids repeatedly with a virus that causes, among many other problems, brain damage and immune problems.

We could have at least given them clean air.

It's absolutely despicable, villainous behaviour for which some of them will suffer for the rest of their lives.
All so the money keeps flowing to the rich.

Unforgiveable.

maggiejk,
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@pezmico Look what Boston Public Schools did. You can click on individual schools and even dial down to specific classrooms and see what the air quality was all day any day.

Why couldn’t all the kids have this? Funding was passed for upgrades in the US. Where did it go?

https://bostonschoolsiaq.terrabase.com/

xankarn, to random
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Is there a party that wants to control what you read?

A party that wants to strip women of the right to choose?

A party that rejects LGBTQ+ people and denies them equal citizenship?

A party that denies racial inequalities?

A party that gives tax breaks to mega-corps and the super rich?

A party that seeks to wipe out Medicare and Social Security?

A party that rejects climate science?

A party that views violence as an option?

If there is, would it be worthwhile to stop these things?

maggiejk,
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@xankarn is there a party willing to stop these things?

“In Kentucky, the cruelty is the point. A bipartisan bill seeking to lower the state’s abysmal maternal mortality rate was moving steadily along—and then Republicans added in language that would require doctors advise women with doomed pregnancies to stay pregnant rather than get abortions.

The Lexington Herald Leader reports that the bill—which provided services and help to new moms—had wide support. The bill recently got a 90-0 vote in the House. But then came the language that I’ve been warning about in my Calculated Cruelty series.”
https://jessica.substack.com/p/abortion-every-day-32224

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